The returning registration tax means new buyers paid 20 percent of the registration tax in 2016, followed by 40 percent, 65 percent and 90 percent over next three years.

Electric car sales stagnated last year, and with the tax going up to 40 percent on January 1, it’s all but shrivelled up and perished. Sales for January 2017 are the lowest they’ve been for the first month of the year since 2010.

Later today, politicians will meet at the Tax Ministry to discuss the 2015 agreement and perhaps make some amendments.